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If that's 500 fighting men, that's actually a sizeable army. Especially with no supply train.

I wanted to wire an webcal/https ics link into the GNOME calendar the other day: absolutely no way to do that. There's a prominent calendar in the top bar of GNOME, and it seems no one actually uses it?

Luckily states are not hormones-driven romcom protagonists.

> People don’t complain about roads & gutters because there’s idiots on that drive.

We do complain about roads and infrastructure, and try to improve them so the inevitable idiot's impact is lessened.

Handicap Go by Nagahara Yoshiaki helped me tremendously.

I started playing I believe in March of 2025. I had the very good luck that one of my high school best friends is a 4 dan EGF player, and was in the French team 20 years ago. We played constantly against each other with 9 stones handicap and him teaching me a lot.

But when I read that book, in a few weeks/months we went from 9 stones to only 3 stones by August 2025. and we have stayed at 3 stones since, playing very even games, with only a handful or couple of points differences. Only very recently did I win by 9.5 points. Which made me hope I had made new progress, but I had to resign in the very next game.

What if I _want_ a staging area?

And even then, the "rare" qualifier is not needed here. What Amazon/LLM companies are doing is amoral. This is intellectual piracy (not in the "copyright infringement" sense) at the highest level. Stealing and centralizing the accumulation of human knowledge to eventually rob us all and put all power into the hands in the hands of a handful of people, who are not benevolent.

Can you feel the irony when typing this? "Simple readable C code" itself not being able to be parsed by "simple readable C code".

Athena/PTSD-girl being the only Trojan with a face doesn't dismiss that affirmation, only reinforces it. And she writes about her in another paragraph.

It's not controversial. It's only controversial in the culture wars part of the world. There has been some critics* of her translation among classicists, but not _controversies_.

*: which is only natural, that's their job to criticize each others' translations

How do you get 'roughly be summarized as "I could have done better"' from this critique? Nowhere does she say something vaguely like that.

Having designed a good number of internal tools for teams of developers I couldn't agree more.

Earlier I had the tendency to "leave the guts" open, thinking my users were developers and would want that. All it did was put obstacles in my teammates actually doing their work. My teammates must use the tools I made for them to achieve work the company needs them to do, they don't want, nor should they want to, fiddle with a little tool they won't find anywhere else.

I still leave a lot of escape hatches, but I try to design the internal tools in such way as to make the users fall into a pit of success.

Edit: also, error messages, error messages, error messages and auto suggestions for common errors

Edit 2: also the number of people only addressing the examples in the post rather than the spirit of the post is... disappointing.

I love how new people keep discovering Ian's website (cf the xkcd 1053). It's a really well made website, the pictures and animations are very well chosen to explain knots and lacing.